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Chinese herbal medicine, consultation, acupuncture, teas, creams, ointments, oils, moxibustion, tuina and more! What is Chinese Medicine? Chinese Medicine is a complete medical system which has developed and has been practiced for more than three thousand years. Unfortunately with the cultural gap between many other countries in the world for centuries, the merits of Chinese Medicine have until very recently been limited within its original birthplace. Chinese Medicine has established upon its own philosophy and pathology a system of physiology, diagnosis, and approaches, as was described in Huangdi Neijing (Canon of Medicine ) of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). Researches from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) record performances of surgical operations using certain Chinese herbs as analgesic. Chinese Medicine covers the treatment of diseases with:
1. Natural medicinal substances such as herbs and minerals,
2. Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Cupping,
3. Bone setting,
4. Tuina (or therapeutic massage),
5. Dietary,
6. Exercise therapy, and
7. Qi Gong (internal exercises), etc
The World Heath Organisation, WHO reports that: “Traditional Medicine remains the major source of health care for more than two-thirds to three-quarters of the world’s population.” (WHO Traditional medicine, Report by the Director-General, EB 63/WP/2.,15 Nov., 1978,PP. 2 & 9). Being one of the oldest forms of medicine, Chinese Medicine has been repeatedly tested and proved effective through the accumulated rich experience in its long history of development. Additionally, with the development of integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine in China, Chinese Medicine of today is even serving more people than before. --- Chinese Medicine practitioners of nowadays, having been trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine plus all the Western sciences, would prefer to be known as Chinese Medicine practitioners, to mark this development of the new era. (Federation of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Societies of Australia Ltd.)
